20 JANUARY 1906, page 15

Poetry.

IN MEMORIAM HERMAN C. MERIVALE. (BORE 1839; DIED 1906.) Calm after storm, and after battle peace, As when the wildest winds drop suddenly, And the long moanings of the tempest......

The Proposed Experiment In Militia Training.

gas experiment proposed by Colonel Pollock for which we are asking s ubscriptions may be briefly described as follows. Colonel Pollock declares that if funds sufficient to meet......

Books.

COWLEY AND THE METAPHYSICAL POETS.* THE enormous influence of Johnson on English criticism is nowhere better seen than in the general acceptance by later critics of his views on......

Lto The Editor Or The " Spectator:1 Sin,—dr. Hodgkin's...

is certainly a great advance, and points out a way in which the religious difficulty in schools might be overcome, but I cannot help thinking that a simpler reform might be as......